Author: anneapplebaum

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by The Washington Post and The Financial Times • “How did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document … is Applebaum’s answer.” —Timothy Snyder, author of On TyrannyA Pulitzer Prize–winning historian explains, with electrifying clarity, why elites in democracies around the world are turning toward nationalism and authoritarianism.From the United States and … authoritarianism.From the United States and Britain to continental Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege, while authoritarianism is on the rise. In Twilight of Democracy, Anne Applebaum, an award-winning historian of Soviet atrocities who was one of the first American…

A Pulitzer Prize winner with over 2,500 five-star ratings on Goodreads: Witness Stalin’s Russia and Soviet communism through this chilling glimpse into the Gulag. “An important book… excellent, tautly written, and very damning” (The New York Times Book Review).